An education director in Hebei province is under investigation for bribery after he issued a flurry of personnel transfers the night before he retired.

A report into the incident says that on Aug 19, his last night on the job, former director Feng Yunsheng transferred about 253 teachers from 11 schools covering 21 towns and counties in Wu'an.

The biggest chunk of the transfers, 148, were teachers moving from rural to urban schools, leaving the rural schools short of teachers while overstaffing the urban ones.